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pith:ERVNCQVY

pith:2019:ERVNCQVYW2CIMWVFVOUWBUIINE

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Variance-reduced $Q$-learning is minimax optimal

Martin J. Wainwright

arxiv:1906.04697 v2 · 2019-06-11 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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Randomization for Faster Exact Optimization of Discounted Markov Decision Processes

From Set Convergence to Pointwise Convergence: Finite-Time Guarantees for Average-Reward Q-Learning with Adaptive Stepsizes

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246ad142b8b684865aa5aba960d1086909677731aa0b0cb69322984a4c8e5b56

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arxiv: 1906.04697 · arxiv_version: 1906.04697v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.04697 · pith_short_12: ERVNCQVYW2CI · pith_short_16: ERVNCQVYW2CIMWVF · pith_short_8: ERVNCQVY

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ERVNCQVYW2CIMWVFVOUWBUIINE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 246ad142b8b684865aa5aba960d1086909677731aa0b0cb69322984a4c8e5b56

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